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'A TRANSPORT TORPEDOED.
By Teleerapli—Press Association-OopyrfeM
(Rec. November 12, 10.35 p.m.) , Sydney, November. 12. The following announcement has been officially released, to tho Press by the Home authorities"On September 2
the transport Southland, from Alexandria, was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea and was beached at Mndros on the same night, under her own. steam. Hie troops were transferred to other transports. There were some casualties, those reported being: 9 killed, 2 slightly wounded, and 22 believed to have been drowned."
The Commonwealth Defence Department announces that the troops aboard included Australian units, and the casualties have already been published. These show that a colonel died from shock, nine others were killed, and nineteen missing.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 5
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116BELATED INFORMATION Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 5
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